Dealer said not to drive in Sport mode?

It's probably not a bad idea just to let the car break in a bit.

But also they are probably just trying to protect their car since they have to sell it later.
There isn't anyhting that says you can't do it though.

n33raj said:

When i leased my Q50 my dealer said I shouldnt drive in sport mode til like 1000 miles, when the car breaks in. Should I listen to him or YOLO.

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Are u planning on keeping your Q50 after? If not, push it to the limit!

gbert15 said:

Are u planning on keeping your Q50 after? If not, push it to the limit!

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x2.

Yea, if you're not going to keep it do what you want, but the manual specifies no going over 4,000 rpm until 1,200 miles. I mostly followed that rule, but, seriously, tough to resist a few fun punches of the throttle. I bought. I'm sure the engine will be fine.

He didn't say EXACTLY 1000, now did he?

its fine to have it in sport mode, he probably meant dont run the car over 4000RPM until the engine has properly broken in at 1000. I followed that advice for about 3 days and yoloed it past 4000

Plus if its a lease, yolo on my friend.

Yeah, just keep from mashing hard on the pedal until you hit 800 miles..

Oops. You mean red line and burn out after delivery wasn't recommended?

Drive it like you stoled it!

I only drive it in Sport mode, from the day I picked it up

I always wonder about the recommendations to break the engine in. Most cars these days are purchased off the lot after having been test driven by a number of people, each of whom most likely pushed the metal to the floor before the engine even got warmed up to assess it's power. Does that harm the engine? Doesn't appear to, but who knows.

Would be interesting to do a study comparing cars that have been test driven by 10 or more people, vs brand new off the lot /never test driven to see what the longevity difference is, if any.

Platinumv37 said:

Drive it like you stoled it!

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Stoled??? I'm guessing that explains the main message you are conveying, which I will bash with the following:

And to again cause the gnashing of teeth from those who are part of the "me generation," it's obvious that you think it's O.K. to screw the person who ends up buying the car when your lease is up.

theres evidence out there that suggests some hard driving during break in is actually preferable...

Stoled is not spelled with an "e". It is "stold", like in "he stold my wallet"

waffleman said:

I always wonder about the recommendations to break the engine in. Most cars these days are purchased off the lot after having been test driven by a number of people, each of whom most likely pushed the metal to the floor before the engine even got warmed up to assess it's power. Does that harm the engine? Doesn't appear to, but who knows.

Would be interesting to do a study comparing cars that have been test driven by 10 or more people, vs brand new off the lot /never test driven to see what the longevity difference is, if any.

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I conduct a reliability survey, and would love to see such a study myself. As someone else in the thread mentioned, some engineers actually think it's better to drive the car hard when brand new.

As far as I can tell no actual research has been performed on the topic in decades. The general guideline to go easy on the car for the first X miles goes way back to before engines were so precisely manufactured.

What I can say: even though cars are driven many different ways when new, reports of problems with piston rings before 120,000 miles are rare. Except for some recent Audis, where there's clearly a problem likely unrelated to how the cars were broken in.

Not "stold" , but stole. Stole is the past tense of steal.

dmkmd said:

Not "stold" , but stole. Stole is the past tense of steal.

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He was being facetious!!!